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■halt trebly Ants t 4k .Mi 6, 1*77. P"■ " W 1111 fKtom th ■ Hartford Courant.] ©l.O MAYIIKIH, M l>W at * chtirch moor*, rA U.l<£h a rail; A t !at a* a porpolae, ■ A * rough aa a gale; . A* brave w, lion, A* xjirv i ai: A* bright ax” At weak aa a rat. * A# proud a* a peacock, Aa Nf M a fox ; | Ar mo- .rf It March bate, Am*: Urns; an au ox§ Am fair aif a HJy, As empty a- air T A* rich.** a Cm su, M ere** u a t>ear. As pare a> 1, Af* smart as a feteeMraf’, A* ugly at Pin ; AS 4m M Ik OOOMUU If Aattkitcftlbthci'l! Ah flit fei a i,iTicakt* s* ,r **•* u i *•, - Aa red aa a beer . As round as an apple. As b ark as your hat ; As brown as n iHsrry, As blir cl as a bat; As mean as a mI*ET As fu J as a tick ; A plump a* a part ridge, At rharp ttlck. A* < can Map* m.y . f. ■ <lar): at a pall ; At hard up a rail 1 t one, A“ r 4. , At !'• • * A O;. a I.- I ; At fc i ry-* a herrti;/, A ileep aa a well. at a feather, Ap flfiti at a rock . A* Mtf a a poker, Aa calm aa a c)o< k ; L A* green na a goalii g, I Ah hr.tk ifl a txre; S Anil now li t ino r * -V tajHt TQ nk Hi <y 1 ■ HKk ’i here ain’t a- kno -. a to-day ] ii"Tcr war a luiPiff*‘j! y Wa yi Itifiiiii. 1 I'm dreadful afraid tmy'll htWffiip me! *lTiftrf:’*anottier thin** that'M ie-t*ky hard— _ i < m*t <> int a ii*-L yard To ay ‘ How b>- you ? or borry a pin, Hut wbfii the imper M huv it ♦We’re ph.aHcd to mty the Vv idder Greene ► Took dinner a To xy with Mm. Keene.’ Or, *Our worthy friend Mr-. Greeue’n gone Down txflinr kh .m -•ad to mc<; he** on. Great Jerusalem ! can't i etir Without a-rttialn* some fellur’s fur? * Thereaju’t no privacy, mo to fifty, No r llmu it thin tva. a Judgment Day. And aw lor m- tin’ -I want tty swear Kvery time 1 nut ray head in there ; Why, even ‘Old Hundred* ’s spiled, and done hiko everything else under the sun ; It u*ed to ho Hoiomu an 1 alow, ♦l’rftl&e to the Lord from men below/ Now JtifObf like u gallopin’ steer, High diddle, diddle! there and here. No reaped to the loctd above ' fin more nof he was hand and clove With all the - rottirs lie over made, A-l all the jlus that ever was played. J’i leliln, tno— Init here I'm dumb— Hut I 101 l vun wb i, I I-, 111.-- 11 uuo If good old 1 'arson Nuthui Stroup Otu o’ In* Brave would come along, An' give us ft Min in' tasto o’ lire— a!FWfi| * if ,and just -i my desire. Tl,r‘M ■ s world or other - niplete, k Whi^JJßfe 1 rll liindng over my lie nl; B ll I "I-, . H kfSteil Old o' dee 111, | sell!,Ill y i ieiins a miirderln’ round— folks hatter be under the ground. Hi. fare-yo-woll I this ulrtlily scene No more'll lio pestered by VVidder Qreenc." • —Baltimore Hun. Pllf'fl 1,0 VK. \\ H i.n first wo love, you Ittiosv, wo seldom wed— • • i Tli, 1 fiiin \v % iioii d)i oat o: hope wu-*- dead; L Au-l then women e mnot Clio ire our lot. Wtneli must bo borne which It Is hard to bear, given away wliieli it were sweet to keep, help us allw ho it- ed, Indeed, Uis en, ; yet I know the Hhe.iluiMl loves 11m she p. boy bof'iiis to babbl" now nv his earliest infant prayer; 1 is father s eatft r ey- s, I know, 5 they saj.ioo, ms motl.ei sunny hen lie .. p. ,u - . :i, v I-.: , £* 1 I Pan fcel his lit hi biv:it i- -nne and Hk el one lle-iven le lp ,p. I pit, me— l<i, l(,\ed me, -e v,-. -: I ■ ■ fig! I ns de out duty, and not shrink. ■ Aiidlihl, heaven hiuuiu> lor the ra^. ■ : blame us women not if nolle appear ■ Too cold, at times, and some too pay and lif-lit , ■Obio tfrlata fc-imw deep; some woes are hard to ■ liellr, r Who | now* the past? and who tan judge us > rlt-it? fMa fch ! wore wo judged by what we might have { be,-n, I And not by what we art —too apt to fall! ■My little Child he sleeps uud smiles between P These thoughts undine. In heaven we Hhull ' know all. i i tec. —> iga ii A HIM* 4 lotted a lady's poekcllmWc; while March to/ forth* name 1 came across an “item bill,” , Below 1 (five the same : Saturday, May 19, tt?7T. [tillin'!, with lac.* au-l ai* ua, i- * • <’,*, ml jtsarl-coloiv.l ilk, lt:i;i-- ml uitn blu,’, UO lair ot low s'h'H's lur v ,u*m wnffher, lb no huMiailo with handle bamboo, 600 bu3h and ncinu ffas i Huston chips, 125 liiall hunch of lloivcr;* street, 60 le with straw e l red tips, 1 00 ftir of gloves, awful polite, • 106 m Total, $314 40 • * Biuw 1 ask, with the ladies as judges, I If this lit* the bill for on. day, ■ow can a man vith tfvu tlioiisaml a year ■ Marry and live happy, I pray ? m- will .< i ■■ In* dr. :idlL a ‘ ■Amt ob! what a I ■far.A,ha.- Ids own will; Bto la wisest who never tt.uh mam / ■ ' M. M. lu! crent ire sat next me at Hst recital of Chop ns music, given t ßlftiue Essipoff. During tlm ; .it hoi in from tho Sonntii, Opus üßßOeativu was fixed, ns if the mu |HI entranced her ven soul, ilor Vlisleacd with nuotiou, aud her Bfaoe was expressive of admiration BKCitemenf. When the pianist had Ped, the gentleman who was with “ sweet little creature turn, and to her said; “How beautiful.’” To which Replied: “Yes, indeed; doesn’t it fit Ixquisitely iu the bac', M How much lon suppose it oost .‘ yard?” —Music Ifc lieriew. Bj-Wmblican correspondent telegraph |fe& te hington that no military com .Nib lie sent t*t F. irqv ..liservo BK?' upon tlie •'puriiiPJl of the BHr benued under- r\ ' i anv ■ .J" ,• V.t was ut that ■BppsiOfied but ' ■•*'hs Wt iuail fbath, “when tbo \v c v, •"* W ,k Lu:ean the Deik of t |Jy. woen tire Welk tf fc" l the Dale ot of Batte** oo—i _ u '.' .. u ''- .* the the passage T ’ v ; ' l *-:u:n ’ Bully mangled that he d;q n t ” ’ - > Bould pay to repair it, .# Bventhly and lastly," and went / This from the land of moral ideas and advanced civilization.; At New Haven. Conn., Mrs. Ellen Warner, wife of a re spectable mechanic, was enticed into a 'low saloon and made partially intoxicated, when she was taken into a rear yard aud outraged by eight men, who nun* aud choked her shamefully during .her struggles. Her condition is critical. Four of the party have been .arrested. r j *~— —--- is to bere ft ducif th > year ~hy v OVX)o, making a reduction of $100,000,000 within two ■s. • ars. It is claimed that the valuation fot fal parpo, es of taxation of real ©state p sbouurtk what it will bring at a forced -sale, aud that years past the land „ "j- BosUm has v*een much above this. Bcicxde or aPa vsicxas. —ln New York, on Thursday eveuing, Dr. Claude Gra ham Stanley, a yqpug gentleman of good professional practice and ample means, MfcAifcJed suicide in his studio for some JPw>u Cxiuis not transpired, but which H b e° fami]^ '>S Uiing bydr^i^tL mS PUrpoS * THK FJ' LO *N M FA M. Kaisinu Turkeys. — I There i- no fowl more profitable to raise than turkey the bronze variety being the largest anl most profitable. They require a free ranee over the fields, and large flock often ohtaia all the food they need in foraging on grasshopper* and grain field*, after harvest. Farmers who have no near neighbors might make considerable money on them, a* they always com mand a fair price in November and De cember. If one had the conveniences for keel ting enough stock to produce 500 turkeys annually lie could easily dear SOOO on them, and |>os-ibly more. A large yard, with a fence 12 feet high, would be required to enclose them at night, with ;>oles to rest upon, some low ami sotoe high to give them a chance to reach the highest easily. No protection is needed in the coldest weather, as we often see them choosing the ridge of a barn to resist on in the winter, in prefer ence to roosting under a shed. Around this yard might be placed empty barrels on their sides for them to lay hi. first, throwing in a few inches of dry earth, over which places some fine oat straw, with a narrow board in front to keep it in it- place. A cheap shed on the north -idc would Is- a good thing for them to run under in Mtvere storms. Then a.- many eitops would be required as you have breeding turkeys, which should be placed outside of this yard as they hatch : ami ns far apart as you have space for them, 50 to 10" feet if possible. These coops should lie well made, as they will la-i for many years. Let them lx- of a triangular shape, and water proof on thn e sides, the front being slatted up. Make them large, because a turkey with a large brood must have ample space. When the coops are to l>e set. it would he a go si to place a few inches deep i I'Mirt^^o^lattheimuinilii^H^oo^y ’ ' 5 < * • you n - . - .. next morning till the • i-i iiKs ; and if stormy keep thorn in ah Perhaps it would be better to hub:,i the most of the broods link lii, ll| mi® Iff! 111 I! 1 each. As turkey raising Ls now confined to raising from 10 to 50 upon farms, my remarks, as applying to 500 or more, are not based upon actual experience in raising that number, but rather on what, in my opinion would he required to make the business a success ; and 1 think the subject one that farmers should consider, in order to make all the money that they can in such a branch of business. — Farmers' Friend Fattening Animals. —Avery com mon error among fanners, which needs correction, is the opinion that animals may be fattened in a few weeks, and fitted for market by heavy feeding, or, as it is termed, by pushing. Many farmers do not think of beginning to fatten their hogs or cattle for early winter market until autumn has actually commenced. Their food is then changed, and they are dosed with large quantities of grain or meal. This sudden change often do ranges the system, and it is frequently some time before they recover from it. From observation and inquiry, we find that the most successful managers adopt a very different course. They feed mod erately, with great regularity, and for a long period. The most successful pork raiser that we have met with commences the fattening of swine for the winter market early in the preceding spring. In fact, lie keeps his young swine in a growing condition all through the win ter. lie begins moderately and in creases the amount gradually, never placing before the animal more than it will freely cat. With this treatment and strict attention to the cleanliness of the animals, his <ping pigs, at ten months, usually eygecd three hundred and fifty i... tui>./an 1 have sometimes gone as unit'll as/fiur hundred and fifty pounds, Bil l pi/fis Altered over, reach a weight Hu pounds,-- The. 'corn, which is ground and scalded before feeding, nets him, on au average, one dollar per bushel, when the market price of pork is five cents per pound.— Christian Inion. Grange Enterprise.—We can get a pretty good idea of the immense ex tent and benefit of the Order of Patrons of H usbandry in our country, when we state that it lias twenty State purchas ing agencies, three of which do an an nual business of $200,000. During the past year it has had in active operation five banking associations, one of which (at San Francisco) has a capital of $5,- 000,000, of which $500,000 was paid in, five steam boats or packet lines ; thirty manufacturing associations, whose capi tal ranges from $200,000 to $500,000; fifty associations for shipping goods and shipping purposes ; thirty-two grain ele vators ; sixteen grist mills, one of which produces one hundred barrels of flour per day; twenty-two warehouses tor storing goods; three tanneries aud six sniit heries, These are distinctly Grange enterprise, started with capital contribu ted by members of the order, managed by them aud producing for their bene fits. In addition there has been estab lished one hundred and sixty Grange stores to furnish members with supplies at wholesale prices, plus freight aud hauling—the customers who are stock holders dividing the profits The or der has dedicated one hundred and forty four halls, built or bought to serve as meeting places, oue of which cost SIOO,OOO. Oatmeal Diet.—A Philadelphia ex perimenter has been emulating the ex ample of Dio Lewis in respect to eco nomical living and a vegetable Idiot, and communicates to the public the result of his effort to feed a family of three on a dollar a week. He tried com meal and found it insipid. Buckwheat soon fol lowed, and potatoes also failed to sus tain bodily strength. The oatmeal was tried, anu, at the expiration of two weeks, says the experimenter. ; M found myself four and a quarter pounds heav ier. My wife had gained thre^ounds, day- 1 ' was^^^^^^oPfess seven cents per day for each person. We arc now pursuing the same course, with an occasional mixed meal." Apple Dumpling—Baked. One pint of flour, one tablespoonful lard and one heaping teaspoonful yeast powders. Sift the flour and yeast powders to gether aud mix the lard with it thor oughly. Wet with water to about the consistency of biscuit dough and roll i thin, cut in six or seven pieces, roll each i pyvjco as thin as possible, put on each pte\v of dough about half a large apple peaUq ;UU { sliced ; gather and piuch the dough M , c losely around the apple and I '' ut in ah ;x ki n g pan with the smooth | Ml '■ up. These dumplings are very Ntvu* , hot with sugar and butter scas °ued with a little nutmeg. | not JmSS'.T hundred years ago illiumnatin- A^'i 1 Uur a cu '- ne toot of I iron stoves no burned. No be added, noS* 1 1 uatc j ies - . Ir and little steam ■ tls : telegraphs, Look out luti.uts even tli, <e im-.w Eighty revo t nothing ofkbt Uave P™- i* estate and capital, aud g th° Uou ' llis 1 thousands of minor mentions e a nT f I mg. however, to save uv ,! tend I work, or otherwise a >01 ' : luxuri. Id X*,K3f and alone, the improvement ~f lias been wonderful, a ,,.i u . l P] ea ?°nts farmer of to-day can pla\ and belt his brother of one fenfe years ago. - PrsLEV.—Every Southern farmer knows pusley, but many of them. pe r . Imps. do not know that it is an excellent article of food for hogs. It grows\fjat on the ground, stands drouth better 4ip**t aiipost any other plant, aud is lim ■ by the ca- N Orchard Grass. —If we were asked which of all the grasses is Isv-t for South ern -mall farmers, w ith the lights before u wc should answer orchard grass. Why? We have no personal experi ence with it. but numerous thrifty, in telligent fanners are almost daily writing about its excellences, and their testimony must be as good a* ours could be. They tell us that it is perennial —that is, per manent. growing all the time, winter and summer. Few grasses will do that. Think of the advantages of a perennial P -nre for jour cattle. They tell us that it will grow in.the shade, and hence it -name. Orchards are shaded places in summer, and a grass was wanted to grow in that shaded situation. A grass that will grow well#!) the shade must be a thrifty plant, and they tell us that it will grow in any kind or soil that is not wet. This Ls a great advantage. Very few gras.-e,- or other plants wilT do that. They tell us that it stands drouth better ?! m any other grass or clover—will (tear heavier stocking when harvested for hay, and comes out very early. It also has v.-ry heavy, fibrous roots, which are said t< improve rather than impoverish the soil. Now add to these good qualities that it is a nutricioue grass of which all stock are very fond, and you have the n asons in full why we would recommend every farmer to make a beginning of o chard grass. Try it. English and French machinery is said to be seeking free transportation to the S iuth, for the purpose of erecting cotton n ills all over this sunny land. We have heard this a long time —don’t think much of it. Our own people have the means if they would only use them. Georgia, alone, could invest $2,000,(XX) that way, but she does not believe it. A very few years ago Georgia desired to b irrow $1,200,000. She was timid about a king for it, because Henry Clews said ummuliJ mi.-li Wall street unless t i Clews and his rin-r as they scorn every swindler. They defied him and issued the bonds. What was the result ? \Yall st reet was the first in the market. Geor- Kians could hardly yet a chance to buy, li j • lost; Kinds now se tor a iiremium. Let Georgia look to lier own manufac turing interests. It we get them from England it will be when England gets in to war and her operatives emigrate. I fiat is the waj T England got all her fine fabric manufactories. Philip, of Spain, drove them out of the Netherlands during the reign of Elizabeth. The Clement Attachment.—lf the claims of this attachment are what they are represented, and we have no reason to doubt it, a great revolution is at hand for t lie cotton planter. The cost of’ one attachment, with royalty and machinery, is about $4,000, requiring eight opera tives, mostly boys and girls. The at tachment gins and manufactures the cotton into yarn, averaging about one pound per minute of seed cotton. In thus changing his seed cotton into j T arn the farmer must save very largely in freight, in drayage, in weighing, haul ing, sampling, wasting, commissions, compressing, trying, bagging and steal age. Three attachments, costing about $'.1,000 with machinery, would constitute a considerable manufacturing establish ment for a neighborhood, and give pleas ant remunerative employment for the women, cirls and boys of the commu nity. \\ here are our enterprising farm ers? These attachments are running successfully in Mississippi, and not one ip Georgia that we have heard of. Walnut Trees. — Walnut trees some times attain prodigious size and great age. An Italian architect mentions haying seen at St. Nicholas, in Lorraine, a single plank of the wood of the walnut, twenty-five feet wide, upon which the I'huperor Frederick 111. had given a sumptuous banquet. In the Baidar Valley, near Balaklava, in the Crimea, si and,.' a walnut tree at least one t.hou sanij It yxQb aurmally fron eighty iflWMid to one hundred thou sand nuts, and belongs to five Tartar families, who share its produce equally. —American Architect. Our Southern planters should remem ber that the famine is increasing in Ger many, and it may also be said of liussia and Turkey, for countries at war are drifting in the direction of famine and pestilence. The small rise in the prices of food will become a ground swell in about twelve months from this, if the war continues, and nobody doubts that it will continue for a long time. Plant, i herefore, as long as you can, and plant everything that will do for food. Let the sweet potato crop be the largest ever beard of. They will do for bread, where corn is scarce, Insect Abomination.—A writer iu the Southern Plantation finds the leaves of the common black walnut effectual in driving off all kinds of insects. We have always heard that fleas would not remain near them, but the writer allud ed to found that they would not only keep the flies away from his horse in summer, but destroy the mites about bis hens’ nests, and rout all other insect plagues. Such valuable properties ought to secure it a place in every yard. Sulphur for Scarlet Fever. —Dr. Pigeon announces in the London Lan cet his successful treatment of scarlet fever with sulphur. He thoroughly an nointed hit patients twice a day with sulphur ointment, giving five or ten grains in a little jam three times a day, and burning a little sulphur twice a day qy coals in the room of the patient. lie found imuThiate improvement under this treatment, ana (Tdlfi the worst cases in eight days. Killed at Supper. Galveston, May 2G. —Dr. J. W. Brown, a physician and highly esteemed citizen of Columbus,Texas, son of Aris Brown, of Davidson couuty, Tennessee, and a graduate of Nashville Medical College, was shot and killed at Houston last night by a desperate character named Fayette Grissom. Dr. Brown was visiting the State fair, and while at supper at his hoy-a Gnssom sat down at the same table andord reu-his supper serve!! in a "hurry. The water replied that he was waiting on Dr. Brown, but would get his supper in a minute. Grissom replied: “1 am a gentleman, and if any man says I am not. I'll make him feel this.” Brown answered: “No one says you are not a gentleman.” Grissom repeated his former words, wnen Brown said, “Ou, hush.” Grissom sprang up, draw ing his revolver. Dr. Brown started up, too, raising both hands. Grissom fired at him, missing, fired the second time, shooting Brown through the heart. Gris som then walked out to the hotel office, bought a cigar and smoking, kept the crowd away with his piste' until an offi cer came, to whom he surrendered. He is now in jail, bail being denied. There are movements on foot to hang him to night by a mob. Brown was a citizen of Columbus, Texas, and his murder has greatly incensed every one. A crowd of his ftiends having arrived in the city to night, it is believed they will attempt to hang Grissom. Grissom is a stranger here. He claims that Brown was draw ing a Derringer on him when fie shot him, but Brown had no weapon on his body. This is the substance of the facts before the Coroner. Afraid of the Legislatcre. —Several of the New York city papers have made the veto of Governor Bobinson, of that State, of the appropriation for the ex travagant new capitol an occasion for ad vocating the transfer of the State govern ment from Albany to New Vork. Where upon the New York Herald exclaims: “Merciful heaven, deliver us! This suf fering city is bad enough without anew accession to its dangerous olasses. ” The Herald things that the effect of the pro posed removal would be merely to bring the Legislature under the immediate con trol of Tammany Hall and the Custo* ouse, which are alreadv the chief agents of corruption. In the Kingdom of Prussia, births, there w -A AX UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT, ('•I. Hfrk'i* Great Speech at La*t Wednesday, May 23d. [Report- and by W. E. H, Searcy, fnr the Griffin News J Fellow Citizens: I am before you by invitation of the friendn of retrenchment and reform, to discuss the questions which now engage the public mind. The people of Georgia demand an opporiu nity to better tneir condition by bringing the State government back within the limits of the strictest economy. Misrule, extravagance and a reckless disregard of the rights of the people characterize much of the history of our State government since the year 1868. The people time and agaiu have demanded relief of the Legislature, but it has been retused as often as it has been asked. The Legislature has at last, in recognition of the true principle that tbe people in convention assembled must bring to our State the reforms demanded, passed an act calling a Constitutioual Couvehtiou if the people so determine. It is a recog nition that all power in our government emanates from the peopie, and that in making or changing the organic law-, the people in convention, and not the Legis lature, 6houid be invested with the exer cise of this great power. This is the highest prerogative of a free people, and one which no power, State or Federal,can abridge or usurp. It is sovereignty it self; for sovereignty in its last and best analysis is the will of the people. I know it is eiaiined that this right be longs to the Legislature: having been so vested by the constitution, and that re lief can come through the Legislature as well as by a convention. That we can accomplish all by way of amendments made by the Legislature, that can be ac comp ished by a convention. This is possible. But did the framers of the constitution ever contemplate that the Legi.- tare \vi ild vi-r exercise it to ty, extex.: if the changes now domainJß and the m can hecure to llie fcstate tile prosperity o"f former twines. It is tlie liistory of tliia and all free governments, that when taxation goes beyond the resources of the people, there iiiiililfliiistiipii that can stifle the voice of the people or defeat' their appeal ? In what do our complaints consist, and from where is our relief to come ? Look at our resources before the war and now. Get up your old tax receipts and see your State and county before the war, and what you paid last year. Prior to the war the taxable property in Georgia was valued at $700,000,000; since the war, by the loss of our slaves and the devastation cf the armies, our taxable property has been reduced to $240,000,- 000. Aud yet you are pay ingfour fold more taxes to-day than in 185 C. I know it is insisted that the slave property swept away by the war is removed from taxa tion, and this of consequence increases the taxes upon property remai dug. But the increase is not in proportion to the loss. The increase in taxation is four fold, while the decrease in property is less than three fold, taking it at its ante war valuation. But our resources have diminished since the war in the deprecia tion of our property. The depreciation continues, and who knows where it will stop. But while values continue to decline, taxation is not diminished, because expenses are not reduced. Why, iu 1808 our lands were worth one hun dred por cent, more than they are to-day; cotton was worth more than double what it is now, and every thing is reduced ex cept taxation. Fellow-citizens, is it any wouder that the people demand relief ? Is it surprising that they refuse to wait longer upon the Legislature? They have waited eight years, and they will wait no longer, iieform they must have and v. ill have. Wo have seen what our resources are ; now let us see what our disbursements are. The total disbursements by the State for all purposes, from 1850 to 1860, aver aged about $700,000 a year. In 187 G the total disbursements were more than $2,000,000. From 1873 to 1877 the aver age disbursements for each year exceeded $1,800,00(1 JSpby this increase ? Why ‘.s it the get the more we spend? Now our resources to pay by taxation do not exceed $875,000. Our public debt is over $11,000,000 ; putting the interest at $770,000, our taxes pay tho interest on our public debt, with only an excess over of about SIOO,OOO to go to pay current expenses. (The speaker was asked by one of the audience if the eleven million dollars included the repu diated bonds.) I answer no. They would swell our debt to more than $18,000,000. The eleven millions is the amount of public debt that the good faith aud honor of our State is pledged to pay. Now the difference between our resources and disbursements will doubt less surprise many of you. You ask how do we run the government, when within about SIOO,OOO of the entire taxes col lected goes to the interest on our public debt. Then where does the money come from to keep us afloat. An act of the Legislature of 1877 is the reply. This provides for the issue of new bonds to pay those maturing, and the borrowing of money upon the faith of the credit of our State, to protect our credit aud meet our current expenses. With a debt of more than eleven mil lions augmented by the waste of hundreds of thousands more annually above our resources, what can the future be but bankruptcy and ruiu. Now it is true that our disbursements include the payment not only of the interest on our public debt, but bonds as they fall due. But the debt is not reduced materially, we issue new bonds to pay off old ones. How did we become burdened with this debt ? How is it that we came out of the war owing three millions only, and when the Democrats succeeded to power after Bullock’s flight, they found a debt upon the State of over $18,000,000. Our debt in duly, 1808, was $5,827,000. Bulioek and bis clan from that date to January, 1871, run up the figures to over eighteen millions. How did they do it? The answer is—the "institution of 1868 did not protect the Treasury ci t ! J? st *te. These “devel opers” who build railroads as well 22 . nia ke constitutions, put the State in for mil lions by way or aid to >ailroads. In Gov. Colquitt’s message on the act to aid the Cherokee Railroad, he states that we now owe m bonds over five millions in aid to tho e insolvent corporations, railroads that are insolvent and pay no dividends. Aud there is no relief. The debt is on us and we have to meet the interest annu ally. Fortunately for u l , these plunder ers, so'eager to rob Us, were too reckless in the manner in which it was done, and we are relieved of the debt in excess of the $5,000,000 because fraudulent aud without consideration. Now I have alluded to this state of af fairs to show you some of our burdens, and from whence they come. State aid is not prohibited in the constitution of 1808. Not do I believe it was prohibited in the constitution of ISS. But be that as it may, while we cannot help the past, we can be protected as to the future. We cannot trust the Legislature. They violated the will of the people upon this subject in giving aid to the Canton and Cherokee Railroad. They will continue to do it. There is to-day no barrier be tween the people and the exercise by the Legislature of this dangerous power. The people in convention alone can and will protect us. If for nothing else, the people owe it to themselves and their children to have a convention, and place an absolute prohibition in the constitu tion and stop this dram upon the people. Who can foresee tho debt that may be pile -I upon the people by future Legisla tures if they continue free to do as they please? Stop the drain with counties and towns, “lock the door of our treasury, and give the key to the people.” But “State aid' r is not all of our troubles. The extravagance of our State government. We need reform, especially in our legislative department. From 1868 to 1870 Legislatures cost the people an average for e*.ch year of 6324,000. The legislature of 1576 cost $lll,OOO, of which 626,000 paid to the clerical expenses. The Legislatures from 1358 to 1877 cost the State on an average of over SIBO,OOO a year. Now, at this rate, can we ever reduce our public debt ? The rule is. with an individual when embar rassed, cut down expenses and liVe on less, and pay jail over expenses upon debts. This the role with governments. depart - SStr ■ fife dred members—r -luce the per diem to four dollars a daj —change to biennial sessions. The ex; tenses for clerical ser vices can be reduced to $4,000. Then estimate tbe mileage at $5,000. You will see that wc- can have a forty day session at the expense of only $25,000. If this is practicable, and I do not see why it is not, we can save to the impoverished tax payers of Georgia in ten years over one million five hundred thousand dollars, and in my judgment have wiser and better laws. I say wiser and bi tter laws, because we would get better men. \Vh..l we lose in numbers we would make up iu intelli gence and true worth. Then agaiu, the propo-ed change would secure u:e only proper basis of representation. As it now stands, there is no equality of repre sentation. The basis ot representation should be population, and not territory. I do not see why the rights of the citizen are not as well secured by making popu lation instead of counties the bEisis. There can be no equality and impartial justice until the present system is changed. Let the change take effect after the expiration of th.*- present Legis lature. Then again, fellow citizens, local legis lation should be tekeu from the Lsgidag tnre anu vested in the county authority® i'.ie I. . jM jH jM dßm .'AMreSltoKJjjtepl <Mh ,; r gisiatj it, but the wBUPPBfc made. But I do not know tl.at wo should blame the Legislature in this matter. Follow-citizens, a change so vital aad organic should be made by the people in convention and not by the Legislature. The Legislature doubtless took this view of it, and remanded the ptaiMcwrt, Du! iipa Bit store of economy a convention is pre f; rred To make llie change by Legisla t res . will cost, according to what the Lagif l-.tures of 1870-77 cost, $222, 000, taking two successive Legislatures to pass the b.ii. The cost of the convention of ISCS was $45,000, but taking $50,000, tlie extreme to which the opponents of a convention go in stating the amount of cst of fi con vent.oil of 1877, and we h ive {5172,000 saved the people in fi vor of a convention. i3ui this is not al . We save in the two y- ars the reduction of the Legislature, r< duction of txpenses, and the change to bienuAl sessions $1!)7,000. If we can effect he changes we cam hold a conven tion every j ear for five years, and ;-ave money to tfie people. Now I have given y iu the two great objects in a financial point of view that demand a convention. S ate rdd prohibition and reduction of the Legislature. These two justify a con vention. But let this work of re form be extended to the executive and judicial departments; reduce salaries whore practicable; sweep away all needless offices, and save the people's money wherever it can be done without detriment to the public interests. But, fellow citizens, there has been much op position to a convention because it is st id wo ihtend to abolish the homestead. Down in my district they say I am op posed to a homestead. I have denied it there, and I will deny it here. lam in f: vor of a homestead. But I want one that iu not a sham. The present li >.vestead is a sham. You have virtu aly no homestead at all. By decisions of the courts it is a limited estate— a use that may terminate at any time. The wife dies, the children become of age, and you, no linger head of a family, are turned out, without shelter, at the very time of life you are least able to labor aud provide for yourseif. Then a ;aiE, you can’t, supplement a home.stead. That is, you can’t add .o it. If you take the exemption in supplies to the extent of amount allowed, and when consumed, you can’t take it even if your v. ife aid children are starving. Now if tfie convention interferes in any way with the home-stead it. will be to perfect it, not to abolish or in any way abridge the right. If anything is done it will be by way of amendment, and not by repeal. Fallow citizens, I favor a homestead that is ample, a protection at all times for the debtor's family that is permanent so long a: i any member of the family needs its b mefita. Save the he'piess from the poor house; save them from crime by making this great riyht a citadel of pro teetion for all time against the profligacy a id misfortunes of the father and hus b md. While it should be ample, it should be reasonable aud permanent. It should not in amount go to the extent of so contracting the basis of credit, to making the man insolvent against his will aud without his fault. Giedit cau be maintained and the helpless protected; credit is gold, especially to the poor man. Is it not strange that we are charged with being in favor if abolishing the home stead, when to do this will defeat the constitution when made? Ido not know that it will be changed at all. Certain it is that I shall favor no change that does not improve and perfect it. What I can not improve I shall not disturb. For, fellow citizens, next to the removal of the c pital, it is the least of all questions in the controversy. We are not going to allow the homestead question to defeat the great reforms the people demand. We want cheap govern ment and low taxes. We* will not strangle ’ constitution by making an amendment to the homestead law that the people will vote down. We say give us reform, lessen our taxes, by giving us h jnest and economical government. Keep your homestead just as it is, if you prefer it. Our work will be submitted bad; to yoq for ratification. We would dishonor ourseives and betray the gieat trusts reposed, if we refused to let you p iss upon our work. The act provides fur this submission to the people. Fel low citizens, if we disappoint you, no hmu 1- done; vote down what we do. If we are faithful and give you a better constitution than the War Department gave you in 18Gb, sanction it, and Georgia will prosper as she did in former times. The Louisville Courier-Journal con tains this truly di. graceful allusion to an eminent American diplomatist: “Marquis of Hidaddy tc American Minister Pierre pont—‘Haw, nujr'dear fellah, I see you mean to be one of u ; : to drop, in fact, the vulgarity of tnut biawsted country of yours.’ Pierrepont—‘Yath, I cswn’t make mythelf think, do you know, that I’m from there at all. Have you egth amine 1 my new ewetht, Marquith ?’ ” The Cincinnati Enquirer is in doubt as to which is the right way to spell Sook fccom Kale, Souh-goum-Kale, Sukhoum- Kd.e, Sukum-Kaleh, Lookgoom K„.eh, Sov.gkum Kte, Suglun-Kaleh, Sutam- Kalach, Takum-Kaleh. Sughum Kaleh, Lukun-Kleh, Tugkum-Kale. This is the true name, so far as ascertained from the books of ready reference and the news papers. and the roll is not half called through. “ . Stewart's great hotel for working wo men in Kaw York is approaching com pletion, and is intended to accommodate about seventeen hundred persons. The Lctel wiii be eonduc ed on the European plan, and will be in charge of a matron. The price to he charged will vary accord ing to the location of rooms, but it is the intention to briog them within the reach cf the poorest woman who shows herself industrious and worthy of assistance. The ItrssiAJf Press. — Tbe New York World notes the fact that the liussian paper—which reflect public opinion or prejudice, aud at the same time dare not say anything not permitted by the gov ernment—oppose foreign loans, and are fall of enthusiasm for the war and of hatred to England. Judge Davis, of New York, has made a decision that a corporation is cot liable on forged bond3 where the corporation has done nothing to induce the purchase by the innocent party. This is a deci sion which will impress oh business men the necessity for greater care in their transactions. . Governor Wade Hampton, it is ed, is about to marry Mrs. beautiful widow of the late Go|HH| ■iirkens. L GEORGIA. The annual celebration of the Phi Delta and Ciceronian Societies of Mercer, was held on Friday evening at Macon, to the manifest delight of the literati of the ancient city. It may be well thus early to state for the beuefi' of the Press Association that the Eagle says Gsinesvil!- is the healthiest town in the State, and yet there are three drug stores within the corporate limits. Incendiaries in Madison county are set* ting tire to the fences of farmers. flie Griffin ,Ye>rs says : .rrv-c*. :: _• ;u.v... • tty-thr. !, ai cf res. t e:ab o fan jm Jm he Lad contempts long time, and tJfl bv a c- bI •' jm J|'t ■ * aS| s'; payer, ren ders it. more attractive, and makes it the best weekly published in the South.” Willi s county is iu first rate financial con dition as w ill be seen by the following report from the C 'uuty Treasurer : lteceipts, 57,- 866 74; expenditures, 53,515 31 ; balance ou band May 9th, $4,361 43. The Georgia Teachers’ Association will ItlillMlJlllilfg, Anew post office has been established at Lamar’s mill in Upson county, and W. G. Holloman has been appointed postmaster. It is ou the route from Kuoxville via Hickory Grove to Howard on the Columbus road. Thß promising expectation is that the largest wheat crop raised in Georgia since the war will be raised this year. Welch, the murderer of Merritt, who wa lodged in Irwin county jail, succeeded .last, week iu making his escape and has not been discovered. There seems to be an insecurity in tile county jails of the State which needs the attention of the courts and grand juries. Fatty Harris, well known iu Savannah, has started a now paper in Atlanta called the Atlanta Independent. The journal pro poses to sustain Mr. Hayes’ Southern party. This, together with the fact that Marshal Smyth will bo retained, looks like an at tempt to build up a Southern policy in Georgia, which at the recent election went Democratic by over eighty thousand ma jority. The dwelling house of Rufus Hickey, iu Ridge Valley, Floyd county, with its" con tents, was burned Tuesday night. But lit tle was saved from the flames. Bibb county nominated delegates to the Constitutional Convention by primary elec tion on Saturday, and the following gentle men were chosen : W. H. Ross, W. A. Lof ton and T. J. Simmons. A negro named Henry Jenkins committed suicide on last Tuesday morning in his shop at Louisville, Jefferson county. His throat was cut and various other wounds inflicted upon his breast. It is a singular case, ow ing to the fact that self-destruction by the negro is exceptional. The Hews and Far mer, making mention of the occurrence, says : “On Tuesday morning last about 11:30 o’clock the citizens of ibis place were startled by the report that Henry Jenkins, colored, was lying dead in his shop with his threat cut. Mr. Colweli had gone there to get a boot that Henry had mended for him, and finding the door closed, he pushed it and went iu, where he found him dead, with his face downward, and reported the same to the Coroner.” The Greensboro Herald, looking at the supply question in a direct point of view, : “We are glad to barn that the farm ers of Greene are making heavy prepara tions to supply Europe with corn nex* win ter.” " Additional returns show rHe following., nominations for the Crma l l l ntitw-iCnmi,.. tioh : In the Dis trict, Messrs. !!. F- Tharp, J. M. Davis and Jobu Troutman, of Houston; W. S. Wallace, of Taylor; M. D. Stroud and B. W. Sanford, of Crawford. la Whitfield county, Messrs. L. N. Trammell and W. K. Moore, and in Murray county, Mr. 8. M. Carter. “J. L. D.,” in the Columbus Times, says : “xV convention of delegates from Harris, Upson and Talbot couatios met hero to-day and put in nomination to represent the Twenty-fifth Senatorial district Messrs. W. I. Hudson and J. M. Mobley, of Harris; J. T. Willis and W. R. Gorman, of Tal bot. Mr. Hudson, supposed to be an anti conventionist, when called upon gave maDy reasons for a change of the constitution, and announced himself for a convention if good men are selected. All the other nomi nees favor the call and are representative and popular men.” Tunis Campbell has turned out of the penitentiary into a Washington politician. A Georgia exchange says: “Old Tunis Campbell has turned up in Washington, where, ou Tuesday, he let loose the vials of his wrath against the people of Georgia to Mr. Hayes, who was very ’sympathetic.’” The district composed of Sumter, Dooly, Macon and Upson counties has selected the following delegation to the Constitutional Convention: Sumter county, T. M. Fur low, G. F. Cooper and Joseph B. Scott; Dooly county, O. P. Swearengen; Macon county, A. H. Greer and J. G. Eliingion; Upson county, Dr. Flewelleu and Rev. John Diekey. Five prisoners escaped from the jail of Thomas county on Friday morning. They threw a bucket of slops in the face ot the Sheriff and rushed past him out of the door. He fired at one with his pistol, but they all got off, and none had been captured up to Friday last. The Carnesviile Register has this item: “A woman living iu the western portion of this county last Monday attempted to com mit suicide by drowning herself, but was unsuccessful. The facts in this case are un known, but it is supposed the attempt was the result of insanity, caused by protracted sickness. She was dis covered by a Mr. Carson, and rescued from an awful death. Had he been fiv c minutes later, no doubt she would have been drowned.” Larkin Turner, who lives Dear Oak Hill, Meriwether county, is one hundred and seven years old. hale and hearty. A car load of thoroughbred short horn cattle, Southdown sheep and Berkshire pigs landed in Marshaliville, Macon county, last Friday, and were quickly disposed of "to the farmers of the vicinity. On last Monday night, says the Perry Home Journal, the residence of Major 41. Findley, of Weiiboru’s Mill, was consumed by fire. Everything in it was consumed ex cept one or two mattress s an! two or three chairs. His friends are kiudiy helping him. The fire is supposed to have been the work of an incendiary. His loss is complete, as there was no insurance. Colonel A. D. Hammond will deliver the annual commencement oration at Emory College, Ox:ord, this year. As an orator he has few superiors, and Oxford will he well entertained. Mr. 3R W. Sticsor,, of Crawford oonnty, makes one hundred and fifty pounds of but ter per week. The Oglethorpe Echo says there is not a still iu operation within the limits of that county, and peace, good order and quiet prevails. The Cuthbert Appeal states that the whea crop in that section is the best realized in twenty years—more has beeu planted and the yield greater. The harvest will soon be here, when our agricultural friends will grow fat on home made luxuries. The residence of 3lr. J. K. P. Gholston, near Paoli, Madison county, was destroyed by fire last week. A student of the University at Athens, Mr. A. B. Pope, of Washington, Wilkes county, while under the influence of liquor, shot a’ policeman named Moon, who was at' tempting his arrest on Saturday afternoon. The Athens Georgian says: “The whole affair was the unfortunate sequel to an un wise system of popular election: for medals existing in the college and which elections were held on last Saturday.” The following are the nominees for the Constitutional Convention from the Eighth Senatorial District; Charles J. Jenkins, Robert H. May, Geo. B. Sibley, Adam John ston, Jas. G. Cain, D. G. Phillips, W. G. Brandy. The last named gentleman was confirmed as nominee from Glascock county at a meeting held on the 25th. The Right Reverend Bishop Gross arrived in Augusta last Monday evening. He will preach at St. Patrick’s Church at the high mass on Thursday, Feast of Corpus Christi, at lsalf-past ten o’clock, and administer the sacrament of confirmation, ami preach on the evening of the same day i-w half-past seven o’clock. The children o St. Patrick’s parish will receive their first c unmonion at the half-past six o’clock mass Thursday Mgog. / is making war ami fpPi&Bir * i!l - - 1 :• - & The license f-*r retailib in Cuthbert is one standing winch f^|fl Wilkinson panthers vyi nifty. badly dm .J 3 " making; n.ub r’fIPHHM it is simply outrageous.” house ou the place of 11. O. (pphey. ou Little river, iu Wilkes county, occupied by Mr. J. V. Garrett and wire, was destroyed by tire on last Sunday night, the iu mates barely escaping witb tbeir lives. A brother-in-law of Mr. Garrett was sleeping soundly whiietho bed-clothes wore inflames, and lie narrowly escaped irom a horrible death. The North Georgia Citizen has this, apro pos of the convention: “The best and wisest men in the Slate are being nominated for 111# MM ttwillii Hu 1# u l! should be, and gives unmistakable evidence, should a convention be called, that a code of laws, such as will be a eredit and honor to a great State like Georgia, will he pre sented to the people for their ratification. Since we see the character of tho men that will compose the aforesaid convention, wo are more than ever iu favor of one being held, and we earnestly hope that there will not be a man in all this section that will vote in opposition thereto.” The grain crop of Putnam countv is rep resented by the Eatonton Messenger as fol lows : “The wheat crops are looking well. Spring oats, without a rain soon, will be an utter failure. Fall oats are doing as well as could be expected, but on account of the cold winter a very poor stand is everywhere the cry.” The Rome Iribune has th a to say of tho Floyd county jail: “It is a disgrace to the city, the county, and the State, a reproach to common decency and to common sense. It is a miserable tumble-down structure, poorly constructed at first and rendered by time unfit for the pounding of sheep and hogs, much less the prison house of desper ate men.” The Oglethorpe Echo says of the cotton crop: “This crop was never more unpromis ing than now. But few farmers have any thing like a stand, and we have hoard of some wise men who are plowing up the accursed stuff and planting corn iu its stead. Others are replanting with the hoe.” The Marietta Journal states that “the copper mine two or three miles from that town, on preacher Allen’s farm, is being worked daily, with what success we do not know. Captain Coolley and Mr. Rogers, two experienced miners, arrived last week and have it in charge. Col. Tyson, a Baltimore millionaire, furnishes tho capital to develop the mine, lie will visit this place in a few days.” The North i Georgia Citizen reflates this snake-killing adventure : “We learn that a monster rattlesnake was killed on Lookout Mountain, Dade county, one day last week. Its length was nine feet, size "twenty-one inches, and it had thirty-six rattles. The slayers of this huge reptile were Mossrs. W. S. Nelson, R. H. Weaver and W. C. Mc- Cauley. He made a desperate resistance before ho was dispatched.” Cartersville Express: “An accident oc curred on the Western and Atlantic Railroad on last Sunday afternooD, which came near terminating in the ioss of a human iite. From all the facts we can gather it seems that two young men, railroad hands for this section, and living at Acworth, had been spending the day iu Cartersville. They were returning home, and when within two miles of the foimer place, one of them, John W. Martin, being in advance, sat down on the track to wait for his friend. Having been up the night before, and being much fatigued, ho fell asleep while in this posi tion. The engineer ou the ud passenger train saw him thus, but not in time to stop tho engine, the cow-catcher knocking him off and breaking two ribs. He was brought to this city by the same train and is now”at the Bartow House. Although he was then thought to be in a dying condition, it is now believed he will recover.” In Hall county wheat is as good as the land can possibly make it, and the yield promises to be larger than for years past. The apple crop will be Bhort, but the peach trees are bent down with a superabundance of fruit. The blackberry crop is very heavy At the competitive examination held at Gainesville, Mr. F. G. HodgsoD, of Athens, was selected as entitled to the West Point cadetship from that district. There were three other competitors. The grasshoppers are destroying corn and cotton in the western portion of New ton county. The Crawford Democrat says : “An ex change reports that a lady ‘was drowned in a previous edition of that paper.’ There must have been a great deal of ’due' on the sheet.” Maybe the paper was wetted down rather more than was required. There were 503 entries at the Thomasville fair of the 24h, and of this large number not really an ordinary specimen of any kind appeared. The Southerner and Appeal learns that Mr. Green Arnold, an old and respectable citizen of Twiggs, was accidentally kilted on the 14th inst., by having administered to him by mistake a large dose of morphine. He was sick, and his sister gave him the morphine for quinine. Madison county has nominated Mr. Wm. Scott for the Constitutional Convention. A good selection this, and we understand the county will give a handsome majority for the convention. A correspondent writes us that John Bailey, a highly respected young man of Floyd Springs, Floyd Cuunty, eompiiUed suivide on the 26th inst. by hanging him self. No cause has been assigned for the unexpected deed. The act was consummated in a stable near his residence. He left a very affectionate note to his wife pinned upon the lapel of his coat, the contents of which have not been made public. The de ceased was universally esteemed and had the unbounded confidence of a wide circle of acquaintances. Bishop Kockwi+h * ill tießver lecture in Dalton at an early of tlie Good Templars of that oity. ** Macon oonnty is in a very desirable financial condition. There is a balance on hand, to the credit of the county, of three thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dol lars aud thirty-four cents, and no indebted ness against the county, except a small amount due on jury scrip thot has not been presented for payment, and the expenses of the present term of the court. Hon. B. H. Hill is expected to be in La- Grange next week, to attend court, and the citizens will ask him to make a speech on the convention question on Tuesday. He has not been approached on the subject, but it is hardly probable that he will refuse such a request from his friends in his old home. There is a lady living in Emanuel county who has a silk dress of her own make throughout. She raised the silk, dyed it, wove it, and made the dress. The Mobile and Girard Railroad has been mortgaged for one million dollars, and Messrs. H. H. Epping, President of the Chattahoochee National Bank, Columbus, and J. E. Jones, President of the Georgia Central Bank, Macon, appointed trustees. The Macon Cadets have decided to attend the fair to be held in Brunswick or. the IIUJm 14th and loth days<’ ; #une, end wljile to eoi id ;• ■ oe sented uy uie ladled to the u*-s drilled c pany. Daiton is to have a so o fact >ty very soon, a gentleman from Illinois havirg taken hold of the establishment of this industry the Enterprise thinks will probably pay a handsome dividend' Mrs. A. A. Murphey, conse *. of the editor of the Central Georgia V/ee.J.g, at Barnes viile, has become associate editor of that paper. James Lawshe, of Atlanta, was arrested in that city on Wednesday Ly United States detectives on a charge of counterfeiting silver coin. / Capt. H. M. Drane i.< being strongly urged for the position of Superintendent of the Macon and Brun®vDk Railroad by the people along the bad o the road. There are fifteen applications for the position. The election takes place fo-dav, June Ist. s-, A negro woman named Ann Allen drop ped dead near Crawford on Tuesday. The Qf her death was unknown. A | grown The Doctor hastW several years, is snppllos, and consequently independent.” This irom the Gainesville Soiitht-oti : “It is reported that snuo enterprising Yankee has proposed to tho city of Atlanta to filter the water used by the citizens at tho small cost of ten cents a gallon, and with the eedi meat, which he proposes to use as a substi llll'lllillfillllllifllllllll lie will contract to paint every fence and out-houso in the city at a very low cost to the citizens. So wo see there is nothing very bad without a little good in it.” Tbe Columbus Times gives the following sequel to the Chambliss murder, which we published iu this column a tew days ago. The capture of the three negroes speedily followed the ruurder : “Mauy of tho enrag ed crowd, especially the negroes, wore for burning them—but a vole was taken, and tbe majority decided to hang them. A gal lows was erected by placing a piece of tim ber horizontally on tour forked sticks, two at each end (what is known in tbe country as a hog gallows), iu front of the house; and as the suu was sinking behind the western hills they were swung up—one at a time. Stephen Abram was first suspended, but the rope broke, letting him fall heavily upon his face. He got up, remarking, ’Dog-gone such a rope! git some’m stronger.’ A trace chain was soon procured, and he was again raised, this time hang ing till dead. With the rope around his neck, he still repeated his story. Jerry Snead was next, hung and then William Booth, both ot whom denied to the last any knowledge of tha doed. As they were pro nounced dial, the bodies were taken down and thrown over the fence into a field,where they lay until Saturday night, when some negroes were prevailed on to bury thorn. They were all p'rtcod iu one grave, near the Lumpkin road. The murderers were all full-blooded negroes from twenty to twenty five years of age, without families. Wm. Booth was in the employ of Mr. Chambliss an 1 the others worked iu the neighborhood. The remains of Mrs. Chambliss were fol lowed to Shiloh Church Cemetery Saturday evening, by an iiumonae concourse of poo plt, where they were interred.” Tho Toccoa Herald says: “Among tho Franklin county farmers wo note John A. Ivlooro as a model one, after whose plans many would do well to follow. Mr. Moore lias on his plantation somo fifty acres iu cultivation, and only about four acres of the amount in cotton. The result is Mr. Moore has plenty of corn, fat hogs, line cows, milk and butter iu the greatest abund ance, is out of debt, and no doubt for years to come will boa steady gainer in the goods of this world as well as have a constant en joyment of its greatest and most real luxu ries.” The Columbus Timer H aya : “ Tuesday morning about ten a fire broke tfut in one of the little tenement houses owned by Mr. R. A. Forsyth, near the negro chnroh in Girard. It, was occupied by Charles Thornton, a colored blacksmith, and his family. Both he and his wife were absent, and as the fire commenced inside the house it was not discovered until it had made considerable headway. Tho house was con sumed, and a child of Thornton, about three years of age, was burnt to death.” The grand jury of Muscogeo county have found forty-four true bills since the'ir ses sion. The majority of these bills are against parties for playing at the little game of faro. Tfia election of officers of the Atlanta bat talion takes place to-day. Capt. Henderson, of the Cadets, and Lieut. Scrutclfin, of the Blues. Lieut. Barrett, of the Governor’s Guards, has no opposition for Adjutant. Tho Warm Springs of Meriwether county is one of the most popular resorts in the country. The scenery is beautiful and the climate delightful. Every desire in the way of water can be gratified. Colonel Alfred Shorter has made a do nation of twenty thousand dollars to the Baptist Female College in Rome, and about fifteen thousand dollars of this will be put into an elegant college building this season. Mr. Thomas Henry, of Conyers, proposes to-day to descend tbe steep side of Stone Mountain and explore the cave situated about half way down tbp precipice. He will be attached to a ropo two thousand one hundred toet in length. In Randolph county the wheat crop is ready for the sickle, and from all reports the fields will turn out well. The Superior Court of Glynn county met ou Tuesday, His Honor Judge Tompkins presiding. Mr. Thomas Black, son of Judge Lawson Black, of Atlanta, who, it will bo reciem bored, iu a personal rencounter shot and dangerously wounded William Pottis, was tried in the Fulton Superior Court for as sault with intent to kill on Tuesday and acquitted. A sufferer from the depredations of flower thi- ves in Atlanta complains that the splendid geraniums, fuchias, heliotropes, etc., which adorn the front yards of the dwellings, are being stolen and bold at from ten to twenty-five cents, and the vigilant police make no arrests. Griffin is talking about compromising the city debt. The News says : "Several credi tors of the city were here yesterday for tho purpose of holding a consultation with the committee appointed by the Council to see what could be done towards that end.” Tbe Quitman jail for tho first time in a got and while is deserted. Its ceils are empty, and not a solitary inmate is coufiued there in. The Reporter says: “This is a good sign i.f the general peaco and quiet that prevails lb onghout Brooks county, and we Xpffrc ofTcS We hel on a til one ties wheat I IS i .it;J crop ll years. I pro-; pel ty. Tl earli'-yl entire I At tl at , ial] Sat i ial were il the Stl John il J. U. il Cocpeil of Surl The I headitl countrl tion ofl gra^J pis Til II w* g • aey Vll' couu'.iy.” John L. Conjß'J ■ cu' Siate John E. a circular to* -.heH opposing the caiiiV in which he use® chairman of your 9 for whom few of tJ nents have any ■ abandoned the *orß State.” 1 The Odd Fellow! prosperous conditio] the receipts from pij buttons have been { penned §2,950. In charitable relief, the Lodge $346 03, showed that the V Hlu>t iu thu hack, tho ball that “haw hreast b;.n. It is intimated tLi.it t>iia\\ was the loader of a gaug of ties peradooa.and that tho evidence which Will be introduced upon tlm n slaud will ho ot rather a startling character. In Carroll county tho farmers have been plowing up their cotto,, I( ,id planting the Min (MUM MOlllit (i[ |||j ppiiiiiil ml ill;' fl! Jo Act o( llie lac price of the staple. Tho Executive Committee or the Grangeix gave notice to the brorhrcu that there whl he a convention of tho Grangers hold in lumbns on the fifteenth day of Juno instant'. Tho objoct oi the meeting is “important business.” Governor Colquitt lias pardoned a- etinn wluto girl named “Sal.io," aged fifteen years, who was convicted in the City. Court oi Atlanta for vagrancy ami re-ntended to labor on the public works for twelve UKinihtf. tho Constitution published a touching t'cuil-' leton, which had ti e effect of arousing the sympathies of the kind-hearted, who joined in a petition tor her pardon. Shelias served out seven months of her term, and is said to bo very beautiful, site will bo taken care ot' by tho ladies of the Bouovolent Home. Dr. J. M. Johnson, oi Wayne county, was suddenly stricken with paralysis last Tues day morning, while walking’ through ttio iium oi lins brother, Dr. L. 1). Johnson. At accounts lio was slowlj improving. A difficulty occurred in Johnson county, near Snell s mills, between Thos. and William Johnson, in which tbe former struck the latter with a pole, breaking bin arm and fracturing his skull. Johnson was com paratively an old man, aged sixty-seven [years. Loguo was a young man, twenty-five years of ago. 11. B. Bullock, tho golden calf which the Badicals tall down and worship, is expected in Atlanta next week. His visit is oppor tune, as it is understood that Bullock is not only opposed to the constitutional amendment rocontly ratified, but opposed to the calling of a Constitutional Conven tion, for in this cyclone which will sweep away tlic last remnant of usurping carpet bag and bayonet rule, he, with all tho rest of the Radical crew m Georgia, will perish together. Mr. Wm. V. P. Hodgson, an old citizon of Athens, died at- his residence in that city on tho 30tli ult. Hmce 1811 ho hau been-a resi dent of the place, and was regarded aa one' of God s noblest works—an honest man. A correspondent writes to tho Early County Feus that, the acreage of wheat has increased ton-fold in Calhoun countv, and it is looking finely, thereby exploding "the idea that wheat cannot ha grown in .Southwest Georgia. HomW. G. McA-100, of Milledgevillo, will addrtus the AlumupAssociition at the oom meuoement of the East rennesseo Univer sity, at Knoxville, on the 10th inst. Kx-Governor J. E. Brown, who it will bo remembered went to Hot Springs some weeks ago for tlie benefit of his health, wo are pleased to learn is imoroviug riuiie rapidly. 1 Each Lewis, an aged citizen of Crawford county, attempted suicide tho other day. JIo did not succeed, because there was a phwbi oian in the immediate vicinity. / Mr. Ambrose Round, of Jlftpoo, met l.is death the other day by a stroke on the head with a piece of scantling. Whether it was murder, justifiable homicide, or accident, is not stated by tbe Hawkmsville Gazette, from whom we derive the item. A Houstou county man has sold a Hawfc insville firm two hundred and fifty bushels of whippoorwill peas raised by himself. If the Houston county farmer can spare tho pi as it is certainly a great agricultural feat and indicates progress in the right Jino of reform. The present debt of l'ulaski county 9 twelve hundred dollars. At the beginning of the year 187 C it was near six thousam f dollars, but by wise economy and strict financial effort it has boon reduced to *i*e above figures. . ij rcl* Tho organization of a Ft O' H.IV. (Mil • , V 1 * 1 I • : " v, '. . . 'lr-. Rim Cm.!". . ’ IM! 21st Ui;. Thu in ndin.i I 1 .:., wi.icii cm the past. H Iho wlii-at crop. Loth in I.' > ln-tki counties, is said to !,.■. . ..t. H J’liote is .i contest over Mr ■ . >n 81'CTjII in Dado county, r- i. :||J . the present Sir r.lf. . . M continuing :n ~Uv ■ üßfAi - clocMon by tho-n vob . I‘. -. . t llfl one polling place on on ;al .St, of which V"M roc- tv. and li• teen f date two. Hene-- it i- Governor to bo mi -iitiHß Dade. The Waynesboro Expositor has this raH road item . “James Brinson, Esq., iither of® Jeff. Brinson, who lost his leg .olio time ago, frojn injuries by the Ceuli t 1 Railroad cars, entered suit at the present term of theg Superior Court for twenty ihousand doilartiamages against the company.” A storm, accompanied i.y heavy wii:daßcd over the southeast section of county,doing corinidt rah o darna- @ to m growing crops, outhouses, fencing. etcßNevertheiesH, tho Citizen says- “The ram favorable reports reach u from tho wt hetds in this end of the K;.te. Tho c®, it, i- thought, wii; b heave r and tho JGi/CGi* Ihjjj ; ip' " WSoum of a negro